On Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked planes were flown into the World Trade Center in a terrorist attack. Other hijacked flights struck the Pentagon and crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed.
What matters now is remembrance. Ohio families lost parents, children, coworkers, and neighbors. Their names belong in the record. They must not be forgotten.
News organizations and local memorials have identified people with Ohio ties among the dead. Ties include birth in Ohio, growing up in Ohio, or living in Ohio at the time. There is no single official state roster. The names below are drawn from contemporaneous reporting by Ohio newsrooms and public memorial records. Ages reflect those published accounts.
Ohioans remembered
• Wendy R. Faulkner (47): Lived in Mason. Visiting the World Trade Center on business.
• Douglas MacMillan Cherry (38): From Wooster. Working at the World Trade Center. Lived in Maplewood, New Jersey.
• Georgine Rose Corrigan (55): Born in Ohio. Passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Lived in Honolulu.
• Kathleen “Kit” Anne Faragher (33): Grew up in Russell Township. Attending a conference on the 106th floor of the North Tower. Lived in Denver.
• Robert John Ferris (63): Born in Columbus. Killed at the World Trade Center. Lived on Long Island. Reporting placed him at a meeting in the South Tower.
• Susan M. Getzendanner (57): Born in Shaker Heights. Working in New York City and killed in the World Trade Center attacks.
• Mary Lou Hague (26): Born in Marietta. Financial analyst at the World Trade Center. Lived in Manhattan.
• H. Joseph Heller Jr. (37): Born in Lakewood. Killed in the World Trade Center attacks. Lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
• Thomas Warren Hohlweck Jr. (56): Born in Cleveland. Working at the World Trade Center. Lived in Harrison, New York.
• Terrence M. Lynch (49): Born in Youngstown. Army contractor killed in the attack on the Pentagon. Lived in Alexandria, Virginia.
• William David Moskal (50): Lived in Brecksville. Risk consultant for Marsh. Killed at the World Trade Center’s North Tower during a meeting.
Other people with documented Ohio ties also died that day, according to the same news compilations. They include Teresa M. Martin of Millersville, killed at the Pentagon; Lt. Col. David M. Scales, born in Cleveland and killed at the Pentagon; Alicia Nicole Titus of Springfield, a United Airlines Flight 175 flight attendant; Mary Alice Wahlstrom, born in Portsmouth and a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11; and others named in Ohio anniversary reporting, among them Raymond Joseph Metz III, James Robert Paul of Cincinnati, Robert David Peraza of Warren County, Catherine Patricia Salter of East Liverpool, George Edward Spencer III of Cleveland, and Todd Christopher Weaver of North Canton.
Ohio first responders
No Ohio firefighters or police officers are known to have been among the 441 first responders killed at the attack sites that morning. Those deaths were concentrated among New York City Fire Department members, Port Authority police, New York Police Department officers, and other rescue workers on scene.
Ohio still answered the call. Ohio Task Force 1, the state’s FEMA urban search-and-rescue team based in the Dayton area, was activated on Sept. 11 and arrived in New York the next morning. Dozens of firefighters, medics, engineers, and specialists from across Ohio worked the pile in the days that followed.
Jason Thomas, then a former Marine living in New York, put on his uniform and went to Ground Zero. With another Marine, he helped find two Port Authority police officers trapped in the rubble. Thomas later moved to Whitehall and has worked as a security officer for the Ohio Supreme Court.
Ohio-born service members and Pentagon workers were among those killed in Arlington, including Lynch, Martin, and Scales. Flight attendants such as Titus are honored by their profession as crew who faced the hijackings firsthand. They were not ground first responders, but their service is part of the same day of loss.
The attack is history. The people are not. Say their names. Keep the promise.
